Top Ten Favorite Daylilies of 2019
What were your Top Ten favorites from this season - the ones you loved the most?
Here are mine:
Stenciled Infusion - Always a good opener, many days of beautiful clumps, and set a lot of pods this season.
Lillian's Thin Ice provided many days of beautiful clumps. I love the cascading form of this UF.
Se#y Samantha and Bubblegum Delicious were my favorite pinks. Seexy Samantha was a beautiful clump this season that set nearly every pod I tried. Bubblegum Delicious won't set pods, but I love that popcorn looking white/cream edge on it. It's pollen was used on every pink. Both had 30 inch scapes this season.
Buddy's Red Head was my favorite red, and a super pod hussy again.
Blazing Saddles is always a favorite, and now that it's at clump strength even more so.
Sweet Child of Mine - Wonderful clump with a color that could be seen from far away.
The Ultimate Sacrifice - Beautiful color, form, and a terrifiic parent again this year.
White Tooth was an excellent pod setter and a terrific rebloomer this season.
Two Sues - Outstanding at clump strength and a nice rebloomer in July and August.
Runners-Up
Abilene Lillian
August Frost
Debra
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5 years ago
5 years agoThis is hard to do, so many lovely blooms.
Sweet Isabella
Sea Dragon
Stone Palace Divine
Spectral Elegance
Tall Dark Stranger
Green Eyed Illusion
Toward the Blue
Magic Dancer
Banshee Whisper
Itza Pink Teddy, best performer this season.
Sherry
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5 years agoIt was a great bloom season this year for many reasons: I did not have to water as we had ample rain, my neighbors cut down the 12 to 15 foot high row of arborvitae that shaded my garden in my backyard and it was generally not to hot.
FRIEDA ALLEN JERRELL: I just love the look of this one and it blooms for a long time.
SITTING COOL: A wonderful pastel from Bud Bennett. The blooms are perfect everyday.
SPACECOAST THORNY DEVIL: The teeth on this one are fantastic. Best year ever for it and was consistent in performance day after day and it is still blooming.
MYSTERY OF THE AGES: This has been the model of consistency as well. Every bloom has been perfect. No splotching at all. The scape is wonderful and it has sent up 2 scapes per fan.
FAST PLEASURE: I love the richness of the color on this one.
WILD CHERRY WINE: Need I say more.
SUPERMODEL: This is a bloom machine and every bloom is perfect day in and day out. Increases quickly.
OUR FRIEND OLIN: Flat and ruffled and huge. Love it love it love it.
PROPER STRANGER: Flat and large. Love it love it love it.
TACTICAL CAT: This one just blooms its fool head off. I used this one alot this year spreading pollen and setting pods.
Honorable mentions:
HOT SEAT
29 Flags Over Conway
As I always say, ask me next week and it might change ever so slightly.
David- 5 years ago
Sherry, I especially like Tall Dark Stranger and Magic Dancer.
Maryl, PALMETTO PRIDE is my favorite of these.
David, Wild Cherry Wine and 29 Flags over Conway are my favorites.
My favorites are somewhat limited to what I could regularly see, which is part of 2 beds out the window and out front. I did have an appreciation for some different ones this year because of this, not a bad thing.Note: had to resize many of these to get them to post. Once resized, the posted instantly.
Seedlings A & B [Bittersweet Holiday x Kent's Favorite Two] were so bright they stood out easily from any distance.
Bombay Silk [left] amazed me daily and love this picture with Grape Velvet.
Carmen Renee
Kirsten's Corsage-
Coral Majority bloomed like crazy
North Wind Dancer, long season and photographed well, so may days I really enjoyed the photo that Janelle took.
No more will post. Will try below.Brad
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Castle Pinkney had it first good season ever.
Indian Giver
Acquire the Fire
Joan Derifield
Brad 
5 years agoSo many lovelies here.
Debra, I really like the look of White Tooth. I might have to try that one even though we shy away from Peat daylilies, which have not proven to be hardy enough here.
Maryl, Penny Pinsley catches my eye. I like the small doubles. Orchids and Gold is certainly a lovely bloom. It lived here for many years, but didn't thrive so we sent it to a friend in the south this season.
David, as usual I love that Wild Cherry Wine. Spacecoast Thorny Devil does well here and was quite nice this season.
Brad, North Wind Dancer is a favorite here. We moved ours and split the rather large clumps and its not back up to speed yet. I can't wait for it to get back to the clump. It makes such a nice display which is especially appreciated in the late garden.
It was really hard to pick just ten. I picked a group of 15 and then narrowed it down to 10. Now I am thinking of others I could have included.
These daylilies are not picked because they are great performers. Some are new and haven't proven themselves yet. They are ones I like a lot.
Forever the Optimist was planted last season and flowered for the first time this year. This is a very fancy flower from Canada so we have high hopes that it will be hardy.
Hey Soul Sister has been around for several years, but this year it outdid itself. The weather was just right to bring out the smokey mottled tones on the flower. I like this look better than the plain dark look.
Hip Hop Music isn't the best performer in the garden, but has a wonderful face. It hasn't increased much but otherwise does fine. I am a sucker for an eyed toothy--two of my favorite looks in one flower.
I love the little ones and Mary Ethel Anderson is one of my favorites. It is reblooming now.
Priscilla's Dream is an amazing little daylily. It has been in flower all summer and is just now winding down.
This is another daylily from Canada. Shirley Koch was a gift to our daughter from the hybridizer, Reggie Morgan. The flowers are large and perfect every day.
Sihir is another one from Canada. I think it is rather unique. This is its second season here and it is doing very well.
I think I had better put the last three in the next comment. I don't want to lose this whole post.Nancy
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This daylily actually belongs to our daughter. We were delighted when Spacecoast Alpha Wolf bloomed this year. It was just planted this spring. You can bet its pollen went all over the garden and a substantial quantity was frozen for later.
I can't remember when we picked up The Dentist. I think we got it for a real reasonable price. We have been very happy with it. It has also set several pods.
It was so hard to pick the last one, but I finally settled on Bodacious Bite. This has been a great performer for us. We load it down with pods every year and the next year it performs beautifully. The flowers never has a bad day--always open perfectly. It is reblooming now.
Those are my ten. Just like David said, ask me later and I will have a different group.Nancy
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Maryl , I have so many favourite yellow daylilies and almost all are very tall. Not sure I should be posting this here but I hope the others will forgive me if I shouldn;t have
Some of my fav's are #1 Sears Tower (a Hanson) a 72 inch tall very robust bright lemon yellow tailored bloom # 2 Heavenly Dancing Fairies (a 52 inch tall 5 inch star shaped bloom) and #3 Reach for the Heavens 68 inches tall (more of a school bus yellow 8.5 inch bloom ) both by Gossard . But then there is Capacity for Wonder, Carved Pumpkin Pie, Frou Frou, Forestlake Lemon Lace , Buttercream ,Limited Edition , Jack and the Beanstalk , Big Bird and Big Birds Friend , Peewee's Big Adventure etc . Here are some images of a few of them
these are shorter but no less beautiful .
Hard to choose just one or two that I love . I love each and every one for different reasons.
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Well, no sense in posting what has already been posted, such as Two Sues, Wild Cherry Wine, Coral Majority, or Butter Cream. Here are by no means the top 10, but just some I may, or may have not, featured.
Passion's Promise was much better budded and a standout, even if this sun shot is a bit garish in its gleam (looks like earlier in the morning).How many mornings wasn't I drawn to Magic Lace. Perhaps the moisture boost made the flowers larger than usual.
Elizabeth Trotter couldn't be missed, whether on initial or rebloom. Why isn't this cultivar better distributed? If it isn't patterns or teeth, a cultivar gets lost.
Abraham Lincoln provided weeks of intriguing lavender blend blooms.
The old Stamile pinks were a joy almost every morning. Darlington County
God Save the Queen many a morning was hard to pass by.Also Known As, a bonus, has been more interesting so far than the expensive intro I bought.
Mary Frances Ragain was alluring in the mid-late garden.
Caribbean Whipped Cream glowed and dominated its area, despite its relatively short stature.Morning Mood provided picture after picture.
I ran out of space.
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Heather - Here are couple of photos of Spacecoast Francis Busby from this season.
Last bloom
Spacecoast Francis Busby had multiple days with 14 blooms this season. Here it is with River City Pier Surfer.
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Pictures don't capture well the nuances and raspberry tones. It can also vary. I assume that she chose the flower for her namesake. It is very round. Has lots of texture.God Save the Queen is an excellent grower here.
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Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)